In this lesson, there are lots of engaging and interesting activities for students. That is really important when teaching the biochemistry unit, as it can be quite dry otherwise. The practice here is meant to be done after students have a basic understand of vocabulary and have been introduced to the biomolecules. Please see my previous lesson on Biochemistry Vocabulary Basics , which can be done before this lesson. This can be done asynchronously, but the last competition activity would be more fun it done synchronously with the whole class to make it a real timed competition. As always, this lesson is in the digital interactive notebook format for students, with each slide representing one page of the notebook. There are already places for students to type in their answers so there is no confusion. This lesson is ready to go and be given directly to students with almost no editing. Don't forget to scroll to the bottom for a video preview! Here is the breakdown of the lesson: Title Slide Slide 1: Biomolecules graphic organizer- Students must drag the correct descriptions to the correct part of the graphic organizer. Once this correct, students can go back and refer to these as notes. Slide 2: Biomolecules sorting activity- Students are given terms associated with 1 of the 4 biomolecules. Students must drag the correct terms into the ovals with the correct biomolecule. This is a great activity to address any misconceptions before moving on in the unit. Once this correct, students can go back and refer to these as notes. Slide 3: How to read a food label- Students are given diagrams showing how to read a food label. Students will be going back to refer to this later in the lesson. Slide 4: Food label matching- Students use their understanding of biomolecules and how to read a food label to match the description to each foo label. This activity really requires students to analyze the food labels. A follow-up discussion could be why students should read food labels, and which foods are considered "healthy" and why. Slide 5-14: Macromolecule Argumentation Writing Activity- Using the CER format, student will be given a scenario where they are stranded on a desert island with only 3 food choices to chose from. They must only pick 1 food source to help them survive for 3 weeks until they are rescued. Students will research, determine their claim, support it with evidence and connect it with the reasoning. Students are also given sentence stems to help them write these paragraphs. As students move through the scenario, they encounter some twists, such as someone trying to convince them to trade (where they then write a counter argument and rebuttal) and when they are finally rescued, they are the only one to survive and must prepare a short presentation as to how they survived on only one food source the entire time. This will require them to address the function of the different biomolecules and requires high levels of critical thinking. This also addresses that most foods are a combination of biomolecules. I left the instructions on the presentation editable so that you can change them depending on where you want them to submit. Slide 15-19: Biomolecule competition game- Ideally this is done in class or synchronously, but students can also time themselves on their own. The teacher will call out a type of biomoecule, and students must match the function, monomer, example and picture in the chart as fast as they can. Students then verbally confirm what they put to "win" that round. There can be "prizes" for students or not, depending on your group. I left the instructions editable so that you can tweak them as necessary. Interested in this lesson? Check out my TpT store.
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